United Healthcare killed a lot more people than Silk Road, just saying.
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I called this 35 weeks ago on Instagram lol
You can't really blame United for exploiting healthcare if Government won't do it. Apparently it's legal and encouraged. So it's corruption that kills those people. Silk Road definitely killed many people by facilitating many illicit activities.
The total number of Silk Road users that were said to have died from a overdose is 6.
How many people would have to die for it to be concerning?
Every single one is tragic, but if someone is a drug addict, I expect they will find a way to obtain them. If SR hadn’t existed at the time, they most likely would have been seeking out dealers under more dangerous circumstances.
By that logic, no drug dealers should ever be held accountable since some other dealer would have killed those users if they weren't around. That's some weak sauce.
I assume drug dealers are often charged with homicide, but what degree is the homicide if one is not the dealer but providing a venue for the deal to take place? Ross was charged with drug trafficking, not murder.
I know he wasn't charged with murder. You posted about the 6 people who died in the context of minimization. That's why asked how many deaths would have warranted concern. I wasn't implying that he was charged with murder.
I was just comparing it to a giant health insurance company that, as a standard business practice, has directly caused significantly more deaths per year.
Yeah, but that's a completely irrelevant comparison. It only serves to minimize the deaths of those 6 people, and the significance of those people who died as a result of their transactions on SR. It's more of the waving off of any wrongdoing attributed to Ross as part of the lionization. It has nothing to do with the faults of the medical insurance industry.
Blaming Ross and Silk Road for the decisions to buy drugs and overdose of a number of individuals is like blaming the water company for the decision of someone to kill himself in the bathtub.
The insurance company on the other hand systematically breaches contract terms by willfully denying treatment that was paid for, and does so by abusing its status as part of the Corporate State. That is, knowing that there is no actual recourse for its victims and stacking the "legal" cover in its favor.
Ross facilitated individual freedom and minded his own business without attacking others. The insurance company is a text book example of aggressor who breaches the non-aggression principle and all basic principles of social order by stealing and breaking contracts in ways that result in financial ruin and even death.
Attacking Ross is illegitimate. Attacking the insurance company is a defensive act of justice in light that, being part of the State, it's ridiculous to expect the State to do anything about the abuses of the insurance company.
BTW, having sympathy for Ross doesn’t mean someone is in a cult.
This is someone who was in a cult:
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6? My god. One is enough for life in prison
It´s legal to sell poison in the supermarket. In plastic wraped posion.
And with Poison i mean the so called groceries.
I doesn´t make it better that it´s legal.
I am they are drugging people too with the bad shit 😂